The Irregular at Kivotos

Bullets, Beauties, Badass

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Observing the unconscious bodies of the hooligan girls for a moment before turning your focus back toward your party.

You: "Call somebody to pick them up or just planning to leave them here? I already see more people at the other end of the street to deal with."

Hasumi: "We'll send a message to Valkyrie to take care of these girls, hopefully they're not already too overwhelmed. Even still, they weren't too strong and should remain unconscious long enough that we won't have to worry about them flanking us as we move further."

Hasumi, approaching the group, stated.

She peered past the crater in the store you had punched one of their foes through, who Chinatsu was moving closer to take a quick look at, with an uncertain look.

Chinatsu "... Especially that one."

You: "Good, are all of you still fine?"

You asked, checking over the group.

Chinatsu: "We're fine, sensei. The JHP rounds were unexpected and might leave some light bruising, but it's nothing to worry about."

Yuuka: "Hold it, sensei!"

You: ". . . . ."

Yuuka shouted as she rushed up to your side and put an arm out to signal you to stop.

Yuuka: "What was that? I know you're tough and... really strong too."

Yuuka briefly glanced over to the hole in the building that looked like somebody had fired a tank round at it.

Yuuka: "But didn't you just say you weren't going to rush in at everyone!? We're also going to have to deal with the expense of repairing that since you caused it!"

You: "Yeah, originally I wasn't planning on it unless I saw a good opening. And I did."

You answered bluntly, not even acknowledging Yuuka's complaint about the property damage.

Yuuka: "Huh?"

Yuuka raised her eyebrow, not following what the man meant.

You: "See, these girls,"

You gestured with your thumb to some of the unconscious bodies.

You: "They are sure happy to cause a bunch of damage or hurt someone, they wouldn't be shooting at you with special ammo if they weren't. But nobody here's shooting with killing intent..."

Suzumi: Well, why... would we?"

She asked with worry in her words.

Letting out a low 'hmph' as if it proved your point.

You: "Exactly. You all looked at me like I'd lost my mind when asking to get shot and went on about how one bullet's a big risk to me since I'm an outsider with no halo. If you saw that right away, then I figured they would too, none of them were aiming at me like they were you. Everyone knows you'll get back up, just like I knew that girl would be fine but out of the fight, but they didn't know I would."

You started explaining casually.

By now, the rest of the girls had drawn close to listening to your lecture.

You: "So, I was counting on them hesitating for even a split second in trying to shoot me when I got close, worst that'd happen might be a little pain if I was wrong, but I guessed right. They might be bad girls shooting up the place that're gonna hurt people, but they're not that bad. They're not ready to kill a person that easily. I've been in enough fights to tell the difference."